Posts Tagged ‘software startup

This post is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark as a new part of the Spark of Genius series that focuses on a new and innovative startup each day. Once a week, the program focuses on startups within the BizSpark program and what they’re doing to grow. In Washington, just a bicycle ride away from Microsoft’s [...]

Lymbix, makers of the ToneCheck Outlook plugin that checks the emotional tone of content in e-mail, entered an agreement Tuesday with software-maker Sherpa Software to bring ToneCheck’s sentiment analysis technology to IBM’s suite of Lotus products. Under the signed Letter of Intent, Sherpa Software will license the ToneCheck API to develop a plugin for enterprise [...]

Union Square Ventures — the New York-based investment firm with a stake in Twitter, Foursquare and Zynga — has announced that it has invested in Delicious founder Joshua Schachter’s latest project: stealth startup Tasty Labs. Schachter founded the social bookmarking web service Delicious in 2003 and went on to sell it to Yahoo in 2005, [...]

Twitter has acquired Cloudhopper, a software startup that powers SMS and MMS campaigns. The company revealed in an announcement that it has been looking to scale its SMS operations, as Twitter now processes nearly 1 billion tweets per month. Cloudhopper is a small startup with two people. From the blog post: “To help us further [...]


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